| Graham Yost | |
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| Born | Graham John Yost September 5, 1959 Etobicoke, Ontario |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, television producer, television director, actor. |
| Years active | 1989–present |
Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His most famous works are the hit 1994 film Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain.
He has also written for the television series Herman's Head, Band of Brothers, and Boomtown. More recently, he was the creator of the short-lived NBC drama Raines. He has also teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. In 2010, Yost is the creator and executive producer on the series Justified, which premiered on FX in March 2010.
Born in Etobicoke, he is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.
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Yost won an Emmy award for his involvement in the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon and for his involvement in The Pacific. Graham also won a Golden Globe for his work on HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers. Graham had been one of the writers for the show.
It has been announced Yost will write the story for the new Major Matt Mason movie scheduled for release in 2012 with Tom Hanks.[1]